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'The connected TV landscape: Why smart TVs and streaming gadgets are conquering the living room — from businessinsider.com.au by Mark Hoelzel. In the connected TV world, an app is analogous to a TV channel. Some key points: In total, there will be more than 759 million televisions connected to the Internet worldwide by 2018, more than doubling from 307.4 million at year-end 2013.

It started off in sedate style a few years ago, when several students began to ask if they could audio record my lectures and seminars to play back later. Next came the introduction of the lecture capture tools, video and audio as well as the ability to synchronise these in sequence with slides. All of these can be seen as positive spin offs of lecture capture.

Ulrich, vice dean of innovation at Wharton, have published a paper on how the ascent of short video lectures—the kind popularized by massive open online courses and Khan Academy—might change the cost and structure of top business programs like Wharton’s. — as it speaks to me of tapping into the streams of content that are constantly flowing by us now…and doing so throughout our lifetimes. disruption education technology future game-changing environment learning from the living [class] room MBA MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses streams of content vision

More on educational streams of content (whether we — as individuals — create and contribute that content or whether businesses do)? '“The main obstacle to an Apple television set has been content. It has mostly failed to convince cable companies to make their programming available through an Apple device. ” – Apple, closer to its vision for a TV set, wants.

The items below cause me to reflect on those questions… Streaming devices lead the way to Smart TV – from nytimes.com by Brian Stelter. Cord Cliff Coming: What happens to TV when Netflix streams live events? 'From DSC: The massive convergence of the telephone, the television, and the computer continues. How that media gets to us is also changing (i.e. the cord cutting continues). . What types of innovative learning experiences can be crafted as “TV” becomes more interactive, participatory, and engaging? Julia Yellow.
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Our “lectures” were short (two- to six-minute) videos designed to prime the attendees for doing the next exercise. 'How to make online courses massively personal – from scientificamerican.com by Peter Norvig. How thousands of online students can get the effect of one-on-one tutoring. Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Educators have known for 30 years that students perform better when given one-on-one tutoring and mastery learning—working on a subject until it is mastered, not just until a test is scheduled. Will the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) quash these success factors?
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Apple TV and the transformation of web apps into tablet and TV dual screen apps – from brightcove.com by Jeremy Allaire. Excerpts: Importantly, designers and developers need to shed the concept that “TVs” are for rendering video, and instead think about “TVs” as large monitors on which they can render applications, content and interactivity that is supported by a touch-based tablet application. … The key concept here is that this pervasive adoption of TV monitors is the tip of the spear in creating a social computing surface in the real world.
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We could be watching a “lecture” on a big screen and simultaneously interacting with people throughout the world on our smaller screens. The power and possibility of mobile learning — as cross posted from evoLLLution.com (for LifeLong Learning). Daniel S. Christian | October 2012. As I sat down to write about mobile learning, I struggled with narrowing down the scope of what I was going to attempt to address. Which angle(s) should I take? And then I reflected on my morning so far. helped my daughter wake up to the sounds of a song coming from my iPhone. Success! New guide!
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. From DSC: I’m beginning to wonder if many of us will be moving off of Moodle, Sakai, Bb Learn, Desire2Learn, etc. to platforms and ecosystems that are being created by Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Rockstar professors on “primetime” — or anytime. If that happens, you can be sure there will be TEAMS of specialists creating and delivering the content and learning experiences.
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